Posts Tagged ‘Freedom’

In the 28 days of February I’ve been creaming my hands in the bus every morning on my way to work. Because I’m weirdly conscientious – every morning I was thinking “O wait, you HAVE TO cream you hands, because you’ve decided to try this habit thing – remember?”.

… you’ll be one step closer to becoming the perfect slave of the modern time ???

Today while wondering how to postpone learning and having to pack my things up I’ve been watching this TV-show. One of the topic was lucid dreaming and how you can learn to do it, so that you would be more highly productive and capable of learning stuff more quickly. So what, you may ask. It would be nothing, if I haven’t have a short conversation about lucid dreaming with a friend lately, where after I’ve said, that I have lucid dreams sometimes, she said something like “nice, but not everybody can do it, but I’ve heard that you can train it and learn it, wouldn’t that be great – being able to learn stuff while you’re dreaming?”.

This short conversation and the TV-show gave me the feeling of this topic being kind of popular lately, it may also be related tothis movie, but I think it is more related to the enormous pressure of having to be highly productive nowadays. This pressure is so strong, that people are constantly searching for new ways to increase their efficacy and apparently a lot of them are willing to change their dreams in order to be more efficient. I don’t know about you, but this makes me a little bit angry. This isn’t right, lucid dreaming is a good thing for fighting nightmares and stuff, but not for training yourself in something. If we give up our dreams, in my opinion one of the last mysteries of the mind, where whatever dreams are made of – it is free at night, what do we have left of our freedom of mind, where can we let ourselves just be what we are, without thinking about how efficient it is or what can we achieve during this time?

Yesterday was Women’s Equality Day and I didn’t have a chance to post this “on time”, but I still want to say it – I’m just so happy and lucky to be a woman TODAY, I enjoy so much freedom and I’m pretty satisfied with the treatment as an equal human being that I get.

I’m currently reading Women Who Kill, Ashwin recently posted Frames of Freedom: Freedom to Love and a lot of other little things reminded me lately how lucky I am to enjoy that much freedom in my womanhood and my existence in general. I would like to make it short and clear, so here is what I mean by “that much freedom”, that we take for granted most of the time, but a lot of people died fighting for it and that’s my way to say “thank you” to them: